Dielectric photonic crystal as medium with negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability

Composite medium with simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity

We demonstrate a composite medium, based on a periodic array of interspaced conducting nonmagnetic split ring resonators and continuous wires, that exhibits a frequency region in the microwave regime with simultaneously negative values of effective permeability &mgr;(eff)(omega) and permittivity varepsilon(eff)(omega). This structure forms a "left-handed" medium, for which it has been predicted...

Temperature Tunability of Dielectric/ Liquid Crystal / Dielectric Photonic Crystal Structures

Recently, photonic crystals doped with liquid crystal (LC) material havegained much research interest. In this article new ternary one-dimensional photoniccrystal introduced and studied. The liquid crystal layer of 5CB and 5PCH is sandwichedby two dielectric layers. For the first time, we use four structures SiO2/UCF35/CaF2,SiO2/5CB/CaF2, NFK51/UCF35/NPSK53 and NFK51/5CB/NPSK53. The effect ofte...

Dielectric Permittivity and Electric Modulus in Bi2Ti4O11

Sign of the refractive index in a gain medium with negative permittivity and permeability

We show how the sign of the refractive index in any medium may be derived using a rigorous analysis based on Einstein causality. In particular, we consider left-handed materials, i.e., media that have negative permittivities and permeabilities at the frequency of interest. We find that the consideration of gain in such media can give rise to a positive refractive index. © 2006 Optical Society o...

An Electromagnetic Trinity from “negative Permittivity” and “negative Permeability”

An electromagnetic trinity comprising vacuum, anti–vacuum, and ni-hility is postulated — after making use of materials with " negative per-mittivity " and " negative permeability " — to illuminate the structure of electromagnetic theory, at least insofar as the relationship of phase velocity with Poynting vector is concerned.